{"id":1531,"date":"2012-07-22T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:37:36","slug":"practicing-your-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/practicing-your-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Your Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, go through it on your own, until you can finish it on time, and without looking at your notes too often.<\/p>\n<p>Record your speech and listen to yourself; you\u2019ll learn a lot and get several ideas of things to change.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing notes is fine \u2014 you don\u2019t have to memorise it.\u00a0 But, I recommend knowing your talk so well that with just a glance at a list of bullet points you can know what\u2019s next, and then speak directly to your audience on each point.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not critical that you deliver it word for word. What\u2019s more important is the energy of your talk; that you\u2019re connected with and passionate about your topic. Feel free to ad lib, as long as you stay within your time limit.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have your speech ready, prepare a final bullet list of points \u2014 these are your notes, just in case you need them.<\/p>\n<p>Invite some trusted friends over to hear your talk, and offer them dinner (even if you just pay for pizza). \u00a0When the time comes \u2014 above all \u2014 let go of your attachment to the outcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0CoachStart Manual. Firstly, go through it on your own, until you can finish it on time, and without looking at your notes too often. Record your speech and listen to yourself; you\u2019ll learn a lot and get several ideas of things to change. Preparing notes is fine \u2014 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}